grid.org
was a distributed computing platform which
supported health and science
projects. It was "a single
destination site for large-scale research projects powered by the
United Devices Global MetaProcessor (GMP)."
The platform and its first project began in 2000. It and
all of its remaining projects ended successfully on April 27, 2007. One
project which grid.org cosponsored with World
Community Grid,
Human Proteome Folding
is continued by World Community Grid. A final press release from grid.org
stated:
"On Friday, April 27, 2007,
Grid.org announced it has completed its mission to demonstrate the viability
and benefits of large-scale Internet-based grid computing, and will be
retiring its famous efforts to support critical health research.
"Grid.org was the largest and most ambitious public interest grid venture
ever attempted, and thanks to Grid.org and its millions of members, dozens of
similar global grid projects have been able to catch on and succeed by
following its footsteps."
Platform participants could join one or more of the grid.org projects by
downloading and running the GMP agent, a software application. The agent
automatically set itself up to participate in grid.org's projects.
Participants could opt in or out of grid.org's various projects through the
participants' web pages on the project site.
United Devices won a Computerworld 2004
21st Century
Achievement Award for innovation in medicine on June 7,
2004.
The platform's final statistics, combined from all of its projects:
Members | 1,341,217 |
Devices | 3,734,757 |
Total CPU Time (y:d:h:m:s) | 505,049:097:15:14:34 |
Points Generated | 75,080,667,456 |
Results Returned | 397,354,977 |
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Genetic Research with HMMER
Web Performance Testing
Anthrax
Smallpox
Cancer Research
Pancreatic Cancer Research
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Grid on Tap
"[allowed] others to turn their programs into
distributed computing projects much like
Seti@Home, so that other Grid on Tap users can process the work."
The platform had an NNTP news server.
The client used Microsoft's .NET framework (you had to have .NET installed
on your system to run the client). Beta version 1.0.000 of the client was
available for Windows as of August 22, 2003. A Linux client was in development.
Platform participants could create an account with Grid on Tap, then
download and run the client to work on one or more of the projects being run
on the platform.
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Collatz Conjecture
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